- Cranioleuca hellmayri
Identification
14 cm. Short, almost straight, and pointed bill, slender body, tail long and tipped with small spines. The sexes are similar. Dark olive-brown back, rufous tail, olive-brown wings with large rufous patches, white throat, light olive belly, rufous crown streaked with black, white stripe over the eye.
Distribution
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
Moist montane forests including at edges.
Behaviour
The diet includes insects and other small invertebrates. May occur alone or in pairs but mostly in mixed flocks.
It bulds a large, bulky, spherical nest of mosses and other fibres, with a side entrance, and attached to a drooping outer limb of a tree. Both the male and female incubate the eggs and rear the nestlings.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.1)_red. Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Remsen, Jr., J. V. (2020). Streak-capped Spinetail (Cranioleuca hellmayri), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.stcspi1.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Streak-capped Spinetail. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Streak-capped_Spinetail
External Links
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